July 2011
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Nice afternoon on the farm with friends Missy and Greg.
Jul 18th
Jul 18th
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I may be wrong but I doubt it. →
my sis…
Jul 18th
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May 2011
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May 14th
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“I’ve noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. “Notebook O,” The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
May 14th
January 2011
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On Race
I think you become an adult when you reach a point where you don’t need anybody underneath you. When you can look at yourself and say I’m okay the way I am. I don’t need anybody underneath me. One of the things that keeps my class of people from having any vision is race hatred. You’re so busy hating somebody else, you’re not gonna realize how beautiful you are and...
Jan 23rd
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November 2010
2 posts
Nov 15th
Listen“Old Memories” (Vocal). Words and...
Nov 15th
September 2010
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Changing Accents
My first year as an undergraduate, I did a class presentation on the effect of geographic mobility on the retention of a local dialect. I had just moved to St. Augustine, Florida from Kings Ferry, Florida—only an hour and a half drive away, but worlds apart. Kings Ferry is rural; St. Augustine, I suppose could be classified as urban. It had a much higher population density, and it was both a...
Sep 26th
August 2010
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This is a project Leah Arsenault and I collaborated on in the spring of 2010 (while at Salt). We documented life on a dairy and meat farm in Topsham, Maine, through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes.
Aug 12th
July 2009
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Urban and Rural Classification →
Jul 12th
June 2009
3 posts
The evolution of suburbs
“The history of suburban construction can be understood as the evolution of seven vernacular patterns. Building in borderlands began about 1820. Picturesque enclaves started around 1850 and streetcar buildouts around 1870. Mail-order and self-built suburbs arrived in 1900. Mass-produced, urban-scale “sitcom” suburbs appeared around 1940. Edge nodes coalesced around 1960. Rural...
Jun 28th
Jun 28th
ListenLaurel Street, near Holly. Oregon Hill. June 2009.
Jun 28th
October 2008
3 posts
Preserving Food →
Oct 11th
I have a question for you.
But first… Some of you may know me already, but if I haven’t met you yet, my name is Kelley Libby. I’m a graduate student who rents at The Overlook. I guess you could say I’m a newcomer to Oregon Hill—been here about 15 months. In that time, I’ve come across a number of Oregon Hill citizens, both in the public writing and out in the neighborhood, who are tremendously...
Oct 6th
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September 2008
20 posts
The blade of a ploughshare
alaina: ‘Culture’ is said to be one of the two or three most complex words in the English language, and the term which is sometimes considered to be its opposite—nature—is commonly awarded the accolade of being the most complex of all.  Yet though it is fashionable these days to see nature as a derivative of culture, culture, etymologically speaking, is a concept derived from nature.  One of its...
Sep 28th
Community Literacy Journal →
Sep 17th
RichmondBizSense: A hike in bike use has riders... →
scfoj: One of the better local articles that I have seen on this topic.
Sep 17th
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city audio guides →
Sep 16th
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Sep 13th
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Guide to Guidebooks →
Sep 12th
Smart City Radio →
“Smart City™ is a weekly, hour-long public radio talk show that takes an in-depth look at urban life, the people, places, ideas and trends shaping cities. Host Carol Coletta talks with national and international public policy experts, elected officials, economists, business leaders, artists, developers, planners and others for a penetrating discussion of urban issues.” Patty at the...
Sep 11th
Wanted: Examples of Creative Interpretive Guides
I’m particularly interested in guides for walking tours in urban settings.
Sep 11th
Communitarianism →
Sep 10th
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tba: Maria Montessori. One of the great influences on alternative education. Since I’m interested in applying alternative educational principles in my classes you might find this interesting.
Sep 9th
The National Association for Interpretation →
I’m interested in the creation of an interpretive guide of my neighborhood. I didn’t realize “Interpretation” is such an extensive field.
Sep 8th
Developing an Interpretive Guide to Your Community →
Sep 8th
VCUarts: Third Graders Ask "What is sculpting?" →
tba: A beautiful working definition of sculpture by one of my favorite former teachers in the VCU Sculpture Department. this is so great!
Sep 8th
My Flickr Videos →
Sep 8th
“The proper function of the organizer, in Alinsky’s view, is to identify...”
– Eli Goldblatt, on Saul Alinsky
Sep 8th
Cowboy Junkies' "Oregon Hill" lyrics
Oregon Hill The hoods are up on Pine Street, rear ends lifted too The great-grandsons of General Robert E. Lee are making love with a little help from STP Their women on the porches comparing alibis Greasy eggs and bacon, bumper stickers aimed to start a fight, full gun racks, Confederate caps, if you want some ‘shine well, you can always find some more, but what I remember most is...
Sep 7th
the Diggers →
thanks, Jason.
Sep 7th
The Center for Land Use Interpretation →
tba: (via wreckandsalvage)
Sep 3rd
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August 2008
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“…any serious approach to community-building must devise ways to reroot...”
– John McKnight w/John Kretzmann, Community Organizing in the Eighties: Toward a Post-Alinsky Agenda
Aug 17th
My people are "slow of thought"
I found this linguistic description of a person from the county where I grew up, in a book called the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS). This person’s mother is from King’s Ferry, the rural community where my family is from. “About average intelligence; slow of thought. Dialect shows mixture of coastal and Midland (“wiregrass”) types;...
Aug 16th
Seed Magazine →
science and culture. via patty.
Aug 13th
Aug 11th
Magazines are dead you're next.
chewylives: Slapshot reference anyone? Anyway I’ve been thinking about magazines lately. Well the lack of magazines. I used to roll to Barnes & Nobles quite a bit and grab a few mags. I haven’t done that in maybe a year. There are a couple magazines I subscribe to, but I rarely read them all the way through like I used to. Every piece of info I want is online. So why not just read it for...
Aug 5th
A nightmare about development
I dreamt about Kings Ferry last night. That’s the rural community near the St. Marys River where I grew up and where I want to build a community center. In the dream, I read in a local newspaper article that a developer of cheap housing and strip malls from the nearby town of Hilliard planned to build a 400 billion dollar resort and retail shopping center on the river in Kings Ferry. I knew...
Aug 4th